Sadly true: “So long as federation means stasis while centralization means movement, federated protocols are going to have trouble existing in a software climate that demands movement as it does today.” signal.org/blog/the-ecosyste…

Reflections: The ecosystem is moving

At Open Whisper Systems, we’ve been developing open source “consumer-facing” software for the past four years. We want to share some of the things we’ve learned while doing it. As a software develo...

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True, although the centralization around Chromium is worrying, of course

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Replying to @stilkov @cornelis
No wonder, others are mostly playing catch-up in the browser game. Most people develop based on reality, not ivory tower standards and that is where #Safari and #Firefox often fall short, while having inferior performance. To test Safari properly, you have to have a #mac/#ios.
Replying to @stilkov @cornelis
/2 #Chrome/#Chromium are not perfect either. We had to work around so many bugs at @orgpad_official, we rewrote our rendering because of that and the performance of SVG and will have to go even more low level in the future. It is insane.